Making Mobile More Social — Life happens in real time, and so should sharing. Today's mobile phones allow people to connect on the go and to share interesting moments as they happen all around them. — Earlier this week, when the Giants won the World Series, revelling baseball fans took to the streets of San Francisco.

Facebook to Foursquare: You're out — It's obvious that Facebook sees serious potential in mobile check-in service Foursquare: it tried to buy it for $125 million. — That didn't work. So Facebook started to get into the location game too. It launched Facebook Places, its own geolocation service.

Twitter for Android: Update available — Today we're releasing an updated version of Twitter for Android, which includes some awesome enhancements and introduces a more consistent experience across our mobile clients. — Tweet details page. We changed the layout of the timeline …

Twitter Promoted Tweets Come To Google — In a first ever move, Google is now carrying ads from someone else's ad network — Twitter's, as Google integrates Twitter's new Promoted Tweets into Google Realtime Search. — It's quite a coup for Twitter. Not only did the company get Google …

Why Facebook Still Doesn't Have An iPad App — Today at its mobile event, Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg and Erick Tseng gave some (vague) answers as to why there still isn't an official iPad application. — Zuckerberg was pretty blunt when it came to explaining why there wasn't an …

The New New Andreessen — With Andreessen Horowitz, visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is trying to reinvent himself as a top-tier venture capitalist and world-class power broker — As Silicon Valley events go, it was an irresistible draw: Marc Andreessen, Web wunderkind turned venture capitalist …

The 4G forgery — T-Mobile does not have a 4G network. Sprint, which first launched WiMAX in June of 2009, does not have a 4G network. Verizon Wireless will flip the switch on LTE later this year and when it does, it will not have a 4G network. AT&T is taking its time with LTE and it won't fire anything up until next year.

At My Wit's End: Jason Calacanis Threatens To Sue Us — Jason Calacanis, our former partner on our TechCrunch50 events, is threatening to sue us. His demand letter and draft complaint are embedded below. In a nutshell, he wants part of the proceeds from our sale to AOL.

Will the Verizon iPhone Cripple Verizon? — We've all heard that adage “be careful what you wish for,” but could this be the case with the highly anticipated Verizon iPhone? — People have been waiting for this “dream phone” since the iPhone was introduced in 2007. Now it seems likely to arrive early next year.

iPad 4.2 Game Center apps already being approved — We're hearing from developers that Apple is already approving some iOS 4.2 Apps that take advantage of Apple's Game Center platform. For instance, Big Bad Sudoku Book is already available for download with iPad Game Center compatibility.

Facebook's Initial Crew Moving On — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, the most successful start-up of the last decade, is only six years old, and an initial public offering is still a way off. — But a number of Facebook's early employees are giving up their stable jobs, free food and laundry service to build their own businesses.

Test your app from right to left — Can you spot the error in the following webpage? — Unless you are one of the 56 million Internet users who read Arabic, the answer is probably no. But BidiChecker, a tool for checking webpages for errors in handling of bidirectional text, can find it: — Oops!

Aircraft bomb finds may spell end for in-flight Wi-Fi — The long-awaited ability to use a cellphone or Wi-Fi connection on an aircraft might become a casualty of the latest aviation security threat. — It was revealed on 29 October that parcels containing a powdered explosive packed …

The “Bury” Button Returns to Digg — Another much-requested feature has returned to Digg, as the social news site looks to recover from the version 4 fiasco: the bury button. The button — which is essentially the opposite of the “Digg” button and helps push a story out of the system — appears to be live on all stories.

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